Direction (1-5): In each question below a sentence is given with two blanks in each. Each question is followed by four options with two words in each. You have to select that option as your answer which can fill both the blanks of the sentence.
1. The AWG vote is a _______ reminder to humanity that failure to end destructive activities will irrevocably change the face of the earth and make it ______.
A. seriously, suitable
B. sobering, inhabitable
C. solemn, inhabitable
D. sobering, uninhabitable
E. serious, inhabitable
Answer: Option D
Explanation:
Sobering- creating a more serious, sensible, or solemn mood.
2. Officially, humans will continue to ______ in the Holocene epoch for a couple of years more before the Anthropocene epoch is finally ______ by the International Union of Geological Sciences.
A. reside, consent
B. settled, confirmed
C. have, accepted
D. live, ratified
E. stay, approve
Answer: Option D
3. Human activity has been _______ changing the earth, with the greatest impacts coming from agriculture, large-scale deforestation, the industrial revolution and increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide, ________ the creation of materials such as concrete and plastic.
A. moderately, except
B. greatly, including
C. trivially, apart from
D. mildly, except
E. drastically, besides
Answer: Option E
4. After being ________ into the Congress party by Mahatma Gandhi, Nehru rose to become its most powerful leader and its ______ negotiator of the terms of India’s freedom with the British.
A. instate, single
B. engaged, individual
C. allowed, solitary
D. inducted, sole
E. installed, lone
Answer: Option D
5. As Prime Minister, Nehru had a ________ relationship with his powerful Home Minister, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, widely _______ for integrating the princely states into the Indian Union. Gandhi had to mediate between them.
A. stressful, attributed
B. dark, ascribed
C. disturbed, accredited
D. troubled, credited
E. difficult, accepted
Answer: Option D